APOTHECARY: Intuitive Painting Retreat

WHO: APOTHECARY is for ALL Y'all! Women, Men, and Gender Non-Conforming people, Mermaids, and Mystics—as long as you can hold a brush, you can come!
WHAT: Experience potent life-changing teachings about creating change in the brain and heart connection. Create a powerful painting that represents your activated intuition and inner symbology.
WHEN & WHERE: Join us at MUSEA Center in Sonoma, CA, or Livestream from your home studio.

WHY: Invite your Inner Alchemist to step out of the box and get messy and magical.
No expectations - only transformations.
HOW: The Intentional Creativity Method has been practiced for 30 years and invites you to a higher and deeper level of awareness about your creative process and how it connects to your life.
MATERIALS: You need only acrylic paint, canvas (24x30 or as large as you like), and brushes. A complete list of materials is provided upon registration.

Many of our students have taken APOTHECARY over and over again. The information you receive gets better and better. With the Canvas as your portal to unknown worlds, there is always new wisdom and insight to glean.

Here at Musea, we paint for access to our inner world with the canvas as our portal. Often we need a pause from the outer world to tune into our inner self, which we like to call the Muse!

These past four years have left many of us wondering where we fit in with a world that has drastically changed. With all we see on social media and the news, fear can be louder than our own intuition.

Do you often feel disconnected from your own inner knowing?

Are you able to trust yourself over all the noise happening around you?

How can we reclaim our personal sanctuary and rediscover our creative flow?

The Answer: Creativity is the antidote to fear. By going deeper with the paintbrush, you unlock a new level of self-awareness to decisions that feel aligned for YOU.

This is not a "paint by number" class. What sets us apart is the Intentional Creativity Method® we've practiced with tens of thousands of students over the last 12 years. We paint for wisdom, healing, and transformation from the inside out.

"APOTHECARY 5.0 Kentucky was such a magical workshop! Creating a community around discovering our gifts to share with our community…how can that NOT be magical? Painting, dreaming, and taking ownership of our gifts (without fear or apology) created a container of trust and sisterhood woven gently together with a tiny red thread. I left the workshop with my cup filled, new sisterhood, and filled with excitement! I now have a much clearer path of my next steps moving forward. I’m in love with the power of Intentional Creativity… The APOTHECARY is open! " ~ Deniese Woolfolk Apothecary 2024

"Apothecary is a wonderful way to explore the power of your inner physician who has the key to healing stories that no longer serve you. Shiloh Sophia and Jonathan expertly led us throughout the two-day workshop held in Lexington, KY, to uncover, process, and release in our art things we weren't even aware were affecting our present. This was a powerful class for me. I now grasp the physics part of the equation for rewiring the brain to make forward movement in my life journey. By the end of the second day, I discovered a shocking new vision for my life. I will participate in the virtual offering on June 1st and 2nd to see what is ready to be released or revealed." ~ Christal Bindrich Apothecary 2024

Medicine Painting can be a choice for anyone to spark healing, not just artists, the talented, or those who feel they are creative. Creativity cannot be relegated to those with skill alone. Creativity activates inherent life force and can be put into practice as a powerful tool to summon the inner healer.

Approaching painting as a healing journey can be thought of as a blooming branch of neo-shamanism with roots that go back to our ancestral healing practices. Storytelling, ritual, embodiment, ceremony, intention, marking, and prayer was often a part of the healing practices from the past. Painting with an intent to heal, deliver remedies, tell stories, and warn those in the future of potential dangers, can be identified in many ancient civilizations. The art that remains in our human archives, provides visual evidence.

Challenging times require extraordinary measures. How can processing stuck energy and fear actually be fun, put you in the flow state, and provide some relief? We will show you. You don't have to be an artist to experience the benefits of this, you simply have to show up with a big brush, a bold hand, and be open to self-discovery.

Is this for you? Of course! Intentional Creativity is for everyone. If you have wanted to know what Intentional Creativity is really all about, this is it. If you are a seasoned creative working with Intentional Creativity or an artist, this will be new territory but with a familiar affirmation of what you have been experiencing with the expanded language codex of Medicine Painting. And if you haven't picked up a paintbrush in years, this is for you too!

Annie Sylling 2021

"I have been in search of my purpose on this planet, watching in horror at the chaos unfolding, wishing I could somehow make a difference. I have found my purpose. An excerpt from one of my writings during Apothecary: "I am a vessel that flows love and light into the dark places. I am a vessel of abundant love, light, and healing energy, filled with hope and happiness, with joy in abundance. I am a vessel intentionally and lovingly made, created for the greater good of the collective. I am a vessel of service, of creativity, of love and life- to radiate light and love into the world."

Intentional Creativity is potent, practical, and powerful for shifting energy and stories. And for reducing and catalyzing suffering, and transforming it into something truly useful. Yes, we have the power to do that! Oh YA Whoop! However, trauma often lives in image-based story. Trying to change the story and how it lives within us, without working with image, often isn't getting the results we need. This is exactly what the process opens: taking the inside thought/idea and bringing it into the form-based domain to make the experience visual. We think it. We create it. We witness it and are changed by it in our brains. It is so elemental and basic, yet understanding how it works, giving process and language to it, changes HOW we can access it and work with it.

Our beautiful brains process how we ‘see’ and experience life. We will work directly with what we know about how the brain processes and how to shift these patterns. If you wonder why the same stories keep showing up even after years of mental processing in your life and therapy, then perhaps it is time to try a new modality. The issues live in the field of energy and movie-story-memories in your mind and your tissues. We know this can be shifted and we know that you are your own healer and you are the only one that can shift them. We have tools to take you down that alchemical road to healing. You will experience new insights, innovation, and fresh mojo. Let's just how our thoughts impact our reality, with a paintbrush.

Even if you have already done a lot of story work, this will be unlike any experience you have ever had. If you DO the class and you don't feel it was worth it, you get your money back (you must do the class however).

Founders of MUSEA : Intentional Creativity Shiloh Sophia and Jonathan McCloud

She is an artist and writer. He is a chef and sommelier. Together they are a husband and wife team, business owners and operators across a spectrum of interests. The pair joined their creative forces in 2013 with events in the Bay Area and around the world, now serving tens of thousands of clients with a philosophy and lifestyle concept they call Intentional Creativity® (creating with intention). The brand that serves all these interests is named “Musea”, Latin for multiple museums.

Bonnie Jasik - Apothecary 2021

"I have been so blessed by the Apothecary course. The self-paced structure was perfect- giving me the time I needed to delve deeply into the recesses of my subconscious, uncovering forgotten emotions that yearned for healing so that joy could more fully flow through my biofield. As I painted my very own space for healing and empowerment, it became more and more “real,” as though I could just walk right in any time I needed self-care. The course has also led me to realize that art truly has the power to change the world- quantum physics teaches us that when we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change. Art helps us change the way we look at ourselves and the world. I have grown so much as an artist and a human being. Bravo to MUSEA!!"

Carol Fairbanks - Apothecary 2021

“My Apothecary experience is not just one isolated opportunity for healing through creativity, but rather it is one stepping stone in the path of my personal growth toward self-actualization. With every piece of art I complete, I see myself cycling through common themes of my life that are asking for attention, but with each painting focusing on a higher level. The 8 paintings I have created since my first Legend experience in January 2020 are a visual record of my journey toward wholeness, and collectively, they continue to "teach" me the very wisdom I seek!”

A wild rebel, edge walker, and poet with a paintbrush, Shiloh Sophia has built a movement of Intentional Creativity around the premise that women sourcing an image of the divine feminine within is some of the most radical work that can be done. Her teachings bring women to the canvas to alchemize, potentize, and create the legends they want to live. Hers is a world that embraces contradiction. It is about living wide-awake with an open heart, steers away from demonizing and into designing- as in, intentional design. ~ Shannon Thompson, Founder, Shakti Rising

Shiloh McCloud is an exquisite artist, a great teacher, and a healer. In four hours she was able to heal 40 years of emotional wounding that kept me from painting. Her process is amazing. She draws out the spirit within and guides you in expressing your innermost knowing. Since studying with her I have painted on a regular basis and much to my surprise my work has been exhibited purchased, understood, and enjoyed by others. The time you spend with Shiloh is worth every minute of it. Do yourself a favor and pick up that paintbrush. ~ Chief Luisah Teish, Author and Artist

I can tell you that as someone who once studied art more formally, more academically, I learned more from you in a shorter period of time than I did in 5 years of college. I sometimes stand back and wonder whether I did Color of Woman training so I could teach or so I could paint, and I’m still not sure, still torn, still questioning, but I do know Color of Woman training and my work with you allowed my own style to deepen and change dramatically, in a way that is perceivable to the people who have been looking at my work all these years. ~ Emily K. Grieves

Unlock Your Intuition + Liberate Healing Gifts

Join us for Apothecary 5.0

What student are saying about their Apothecary Experience

Paint to Access Inner Knowing

Apothecary 5.0 Tour Lexington, Kentucky

What students are saying about Apothecary

APOTHECARY works with what we call MEDICINE PAINTING because we create with intent for Illumination and Transformation

Watch this video as Shiloh Sophia explains Medicine Painting

8 Step Painting Process + Visual Journaling + Poetry Writing

What if you could hear your intuition and voice in a clear new way?

Apothecary Student Paintings

THE CLASS EXPERIENCE

THE CLASS EXPERIENCE

AN ALCHEMICAL ROAD TO HEALING

Three Bonuses

ENERGY AS MEDICINE VIDEO SESSIONS

Experiences with Men

Meet your Cosmic Guides

Founders of MUSEA : Intentional Creativity Shiloh Sophia and Jonathan McCloud

Onsite Staff

..::STUDENT WORK & SHARES::..

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Artists, Founders, Innovators who have worked with Shiloh Sophia